She’s the Executive Director of the Kebetkatche Women's Development Center, a field catalyst for grassroots action to uphold the rights and protection of local communities in the most oil-dense region of the African continent.

Kebetkatche, an indigenous name for the Niger Delta, is a biodiversity hotspot with several endemic species and a dangerous pace of pollution, extractivism, and human rights abuses. Emem and her community of more than 30 indigenous African groups suffer from harms caused by more than 60 years of oil/gas/mineral resources extraction by multinationals in her region.

Due to static systems of development that do not acknowledge local practices as valid, Emem envisions a decolonized and eco-feminist approach to climate justice in her region.